The stamina of this dog is unbelivable

Something I've found useful is to ride close to the edge of the piste so that you can use the piste marker poles for reference. In fact use anything other than the snow for reference - you can use other boarders/skiers, buildings, rocks, dogs! Keep your head up and look at the things that are easy to see. Don't stare down at your feet or to strain your eyes to try and look directly at the slope. Slow down and try to relax and feel the gradient of the slope through your feet.

Your dog is awesome ! Great tips and videos. Keep it up 👍🏻

Japanese resorts often have whiteout conditions several days a week throughout the season. I find that once you ride through it a few times, you just get used to it and become more observant

1: practice balance at home with closed eyes 2: practice on extremely foggy days with someone. Half the time you lead, half the time your friend, so your brain can rest and not get nausea. 3. do A LOT of balance traning (standing on a snowboard put on an air cushion, or balance boards daily) so you will get better at riding with relaxed legs and handle uneven terrain without looking.
4: at higher altitudes follow the edge of the piste (if you are on one) and the poles. 5: if you are off piste and the visibility is near zero, touch the snow so you have a sense of speed. Once I thought I'm standing still and I was going at roughly 20mph. When tried to sit down to catch my breath and orient my self, I triple tomahawked. 6: you mentioned it, but this is really important: never ever go to terrain you don't know by heart. I fell off a cliff 2 times, and once didn't notice that I'm about to land flat from a 6 meters (~20feet) jump. All three times I thought I'm royally f*cked, but was extremely lucky to not get injured.

Love that you kept the stack in. Shows it can happen to the best of us. I fell in exactly the same way (board shoots forward instead of turning) a few years ago and really messed up my shoulder. At the time I couldn't see how I could have injured myself so badly, but seeing the position of your rear arm as you fell, it all becomes clear. It looks like you came out of it unscathed though so that's good :)

Glad Indie could keep up with you in those conditions! Man that crash at the end 🫣

Worst one I had was at the top of a gondola in Meribel, just 3 of us in a 50 man lift. Got out to find we had about 15’ visibility and the dump of snow was unbelievable. Must’ve been about 6” in 15 minutes. The hardest part was that you couldn’t work out the fall line so very disorientating when you’re not going the way you think…..then see black and yellow poles….. 😩

Indy is a fantastic companion. The worst white out's are those when you lose all balance and sense of up, stoked for the upcoming season!!

I have only gone on two snowboarding trips in my life but immediately I was hooked and I’m now planning to take my first solo trip to go boarding in Alaska! I’ve been watching all your beginner videos and if I cannot be more excited for my practice trips to the Colorado Rockies to try out all of these tips and techniques! Thank you lots Malcolm!!!

The dog is awesome

man. this is effing awesome u snowboard with ur dog! badass. thx for the tips! i’m in Ischgl Austria this week and most of today was a horrendous whiteout. i’m quite a good snowboarder when i can actually see but when i can’t see, i suck!! uff

ur tips are very helpful. thanks man! instant subscribe

You have a super awesome doggo. Thanks for the tips.

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Andy is so cute!

5:23 of all the places to fall!

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Hi Malcolm, Having just come back from Avoriaz this week with some of the days being pretty poor with visibility we decided to head to the Swiss border on completely unknown pistes, not a good idea I know... Anyway, I struggled badly at some points feeling almost seasick where the only visible points were markers on the runs but a friend of mine who's been snowboarding for years didn't seem to struggle hardly at all. What do you do if you are in this scenario where your visual references tell you something other than what your ears tell you?

On reflection now that I'm back in the UK I realise that as I've progressed as a snowboarder I'm much more strategic when I'm riding, now looking 30-40 metres or more ahead and subconsciously planning based on what I can see which ultimately means I can ride so much more fluidly without fear. In limited visibility all that subconscious planning evaporates and I think I'm back at square one where I'm either looking straight down to find detail or at the piste markers only give a vague sense of direction. In a way I'm kind of answering my own original question but am I still missing something here? Some people don't seem to struggle, perhaps it's fear in the end?

nice ending :D